Hidden Morbidity in Cancer: Spouse Caregivers
Journal of Clinical Oncology, Vol 25, No 30 (October 20), 2007: pp. 4829-4834 © 2007 American Society of Clinical Oncology. DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2006.10.0909

Palliative care: pain and symptom control being ignored in South Africa due to lack of training, legal barriers
By Theo Smart. “We found very problematic attitudes to pain and pain relief. We found doctors telling us, ‘No, patients exaggerate pain to get treatment,’ (and that is why we are helped by nurses). Also doctors telling us, ‘No, you can’t treat pain because that masks the symptoms that we’re trying to diagnose. And if we don’t know where the pain is, we can’t diagnose.’ Loveday Penn-Kekana

WHO launches guide for palliative care for advanced Cancer on World Day
WHO today releases its first guide on planning palliative care services for people living with advanced stages of cancer. The guide, which is based on consultations with more than 70 leading cancer experts in the world, has identified highly effective low-cost public health models to care for terminally ill cancer patients, especially in developing countries.

Medicine and Nursing Need Leaders in Palliative Care Education
Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care. An intensive course for physician- and nurse-educators, given in two one-week blocks (Spring and Fall).

Caring for a patient with a bowel obstruction
by VICKY P. KENT RN, CNE, PHD LPN2007 September/October 2007, Volume 3 Number 5,Pages 30 - 38

A new course on the Cancer Nursing.org website: Wound Management in Cancer and Palliative Care
The course has been authored by Wayne Naylor, Nurse Educator - Lecturer (Oncology/Haematology) in the Professional Development Unit at Wellington Hospital, New Zealand and has been developed with the support of an educational grant from Help the Hospices in the UK.

The Pediatric Hematology and Trasplantology Institute named after Mrs. Raisa Gorbachova Opening Ceremony.
20 September 2007. St-Petersburg.

End-of-life care in the critically ill
This study explores the views of nurses and patients on the experience of end-of-life care in a critical care environment